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He already murdered all of the sinful dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Hasn't he done enough to fuel your car?

That's a lot of words to post without coming even close to the topic of discussion. You wanna try again? Anything to say about the demonstrable systemic racism?

Yes, we all know that you don't like facts,b figures and charts. They get in the way of your totally delusional nonsense. Any literate person can click the link (or look at any primary source), read the facts for themselves and see you are compulsive liar. Like Trump, you simply can't help yourself. Sure, Trump didn't run massive deficits, Clinton didn't balance the budget, Florida has the best school system in the country, and the moon is made of green cheese. You are hoot, like a compass that only points south.

This is sad. Again, you don't even have the basic facts correct. A. There is a difference between deficit and debt B. Of the two parties, Democrats are the more fiscally responsible, reducing deficits consistently while Republicans consistently raise them. Though to be fair, in the modern era since Reagan launched the debt skyward ONLY Clinton wins any award for fiscal responsibility. Democrats being better than Republicans may just be a product of how truly awful the Republicans have performed. C. Trump increased the deficit electively, for no reason beyond his ego, his first year in office, and it rose every year after. He ran huge deficits every single year, including the largest in modern history, adding to the debt at over twice the rate of Obama and the Great Recession. Note that this doesn't even include the COVID explosion - this is just policy Reminder that this is the same fool who claimed he could pay off the debt in 8 years. -- Instead he just raised it every year at an increasing rate! There's a sucker born every minute.

Please, please give us the link to the Pinterest post from which you learned this fact. We crave legitimate political information and cookie recipes and know that only social media posts can deliver. Help us find the truth!

Right. That has all the justice of "the whipping boy." Torture the innocent to punish the guilty by proxy. This is the plan of a just and noble and perfect being.

Jinx! In the rich tradition of secular humanism finding purpose is the purpose.

I believe it's both richer and more rewarding to come to one's own purpose in life. The only people who need to imagine a heavenly father to assign purpose and meaning to their lives are those who think like children. Which, again, I'm okay with. If you need the crutch, by all means lean on it. Just don't use it as a bludgeon against the rest of us. The "truth" you imagine probably feels very real to you, especially after long exposure, but it's not truth for the rest of us, so don't force it's precepts upon us.

No, you ONLY agree with pseudo science, claims which cannot be validated or tested-- or worse, claims which have already been falsified. Creationism in it's standard form, or in the form of pseudo science like "intelligent design" is not scientific. I don't mean I dismiss it or disagree with it. I mean, in a totally literal sense, it is not science. Science seeks explanation through empirical testing and observation. Intelligent design is neither testable nor observable. It's just a semi-educated person shrugging their shoulders and saying. "If I can't explain something, then it's proof god did it." And then more intelligent and more educated people come along and explain it just fine.

Yes, if I were gullible enough to accept your hand-waving nonsense non-explanations then I would be a believer. But I'm not. That's sort of the key difference. What you are saying doesn't have even a shred of reason to it. It's the "just because" explanation, which seems incredibly trivial when you talk about lifelong devotion to a being who tortures and murders children. You should probably demand a better answer than that. And remember how a perfect being needed a do-over and a new set of rules for the New Testament? I mean sure, being perfect, he could have gotten it right the first time, but you know, he has mysterious ways. There must be a reason that totally makes super sense. Tee hee.

Yes, that's what will probably happen. I don't even have a problem with people believing in private, for themselves, as the Bible seems to encourage. But when people want to inject their private delusions into science, education and public policy they start causing real harm.

This apologetics tripe really satisfies you? It's like when a child asks how Santa comes down the chimney or what the tooth fairy does with teeth. It's just a shrug of the shoulders and mysterious ways. If you met on the street some torturer and murderer of children who wouldn't explain his motives you'd revile him and lock him up - or worse. Yet when "god" tortures and murders children with no explanation you launch into apologetics. He's really a loving god. He must have some mysterious reason for torturing and murdering children. And then you flip some switch in your brain that turns off reasoned thought to prevent it exploding from cognitive dissonance. None of this is helping your argument. Rather, it highlights how terribly and profoundly empty the whole thing is. I appreciate that the idea that someone is in charge brings you comfort, but it's simply not a logically or intellectually viable concept. There's no evidence. There's no reason to believe and every reason to doubt.

That's the most vile bullshit I've ever seen. Yes all those sinful, sinful babies, toddlers and children.They've really got it coming.

I grew up in a religious household and did seminary training, scripture work, etc. I was probably 12 when I realized the whole thing was an exercise in circular logic and couldn't stand up to even the slightest logical probing. I realized that the world was full of people of differing beliefs (thousands before Christianity and there will be thousands after) who all think that their god is the real deal. In the best case scenario, one of them managed to get it right, but the odds aren't good. Far, far more likely that *none* of them are right. As is often said, the difference between an atheist and a devout believer is just one religion. The believer thinks all the religions of the world are false except for their own. The atheist has that one is as false as the others. You deal in feelings? If you want to feel "proof" that there's not divine being shepherding the righteous, go visit a pediatric cancer ward. Look those kids in the eye and reconcile your loving father slowly, painfully torturing and killing the most innocent among us while their parents sob and pray quietly in the corner. All part of His divine plan, and there's a quota for the misery and suffering of children.

There are a LOT of religions in the world, all claiming to be correct, and viewing those outside of the faith as blinded, lost, etc. You know what none of them have? Any evidence whatsoever. Just multitudes of credulous people banding together because someone told them "this is the real truth." Your faith is not special. You haven't been selected by a divine being as one of the chosen few with the right answers to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The universe is a mostly dark, mostly empty place and the only thing in it that cares about humans are other humans. There's still time for you to change and get past the hokum and start living life for your fellow human beings and not for books or pamphlets idolized by simple men seeking easy answers.

In infallible because I say I'm infallible. This logic is airtight. And infallible.

Um,no. You most recently cited Pinterest (checks the record) yep, that's right. Pinterest. Par for the course. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-aunt-jemima-model-didnt-create-brand-wasnt-millionaire/3241656001/

Everything is racist. And sexist. That's the inevitable outcome of having systems designed almost entirely by one demographic within a multifaceted society. Example: Seat belts are famously designed to protect men. They are not as safe for women. Why? Because of who designed them. Female crash test dummies didn't even exist until about a decade ago, so no one was even testing efficacy for female forms. White men have held the bulk of soccioeconic power for hundreds of years. Our institutions reflect that as much as the physical world does. Our justice, education and other systems are the social analogue of seat belt design. If we want a society that represents and serves all of the people in it, everyone needs a seat at the table. We can't meet the needs of the people until we truly understand those needs, and that means we need representation throughout our institutions. Before you issue some mindless, pre-packaged, rah-rah indictment of "wokeness," stop and think about it. What I'm saying is completely true. It's also the exact same augment that underpins the rural, conservative push for allocation of power to from urban population centers to the local level: those jerks in the capitol don't understand us, they don't know what we need. Same principle. Now, muster up some empathy and try to apply it to people who don't look and live as you do.

Are we sharing selfies? No thanks. You didn't mention Nancy Green, you lauded Aunt Jemima. You are spreading a bullshit, apocryphal version of her history that whitewashes the injustice of the time. She did not become a millionaire- as has been pointed out to you many times. Try an actual source. And, again, even if ANY of what you said had been true, Green wouldn't have been the first Black millionaire. As is your habit, you got every single point wrong.

I think he's a certifiable loon who makes baseless claims and has no idea just how repugnant the MAGA mob is. They tried to steal an election (that point shouldn't be up for debate- Eastman memo and literal fake electors) they've undermined faith in elections, they are not-so-subtly preparing at the state level to steal the next one, they disenfranchise through voter suppression--and they've stripped half the population of the basic right to physical sovereignty. They haven't had a platform for years now aside from "screw the libs." What does this vile version of the GOP offer anyone outside of straight, white men? If people still get to vote, why would they vote for something so ugly? What young person tubes into their message and says "This is an amazing vision of the future!"?

Not sure what you're talking about. Republicans certainly seen poised to win the house. And Democrats control all three RIGHT NOW, for this election cycle, and Republicans are still winning seats and half the legislature. So seems like a pretty bizarre prediction.

Just like is claimed in every other faith. Seems pretty arbitrary to simply pick one when none of them have evidence. No substitute for indoctrinating the young until they can't exercise critical thinking.

Exactly. Every biologist in the world would trade a limb to stumble upon something with greater explanatory power than evolution. Nobel prize, face on the mount Rushmore of our collective consciousness, elevating themselves to Darwin-like fame and turning Darwin into Lamarck. Science isn't defending an article of faith, it's attacking it relentlessly until only the truth survives. Which is where we're at with evolution today.

A. No, I didn't mention doo rags B. You named a fictional character, as real as Mr. Peanut (the first peanut millionaire!) C. The model did not become a millionaire. She spent her life in service work. D. Even if ANY of the above had been correct, she STILL wouldn't have been the first Black millionaire. Someday you're going to break your streak and make a factually correct statement. I'm rooting for you.

Again, WTF is wrong with you? A fictional corporate character is NOT a real person. Let me introduce you to my friend, I call him Brawny, for short. He's really into paper towels. I think that's why we get along so well. I met him through my other friend, Kool-aid man. Fun fact, Kool was the world's first glass millionaire. Unfortunately he's pretty much broke now. Squandered his whole fortune on wall repair. Good times though. And yes, there were multiple model/actors for the brand. Nancy Green was the first, but not a wealthy pancake magnate. She just played the part. She was buried in an unmarked grave. There was a small movement a couple of years ago to try to get her a headstone, but I don't recall how is turned out.